you are invincible while the force field (the weird shield orb thing) is active
The performance issues are quite bizarre and I couldn't really figure out why that happens, but it never occurred to me that the framerate gets better at 1 heart(?). I'll look more into it
that's very bizarre, it works for me no problem. Are you playing this on browser or in the exe? And is it that you take damage while in the forcefield or something else altogether?